New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-02-01

BY the end of the week Retail dealers are finding no
ifcult in getting coal but compelled to hire their
own boats for the of which tue have pay Genus
q ton The usual rate is 20 cents ,
There were no changes yesterday in the price OF coal
arr ono wholesale or retail dealers. Hard coal remains
Ct the figures quSssssd n On sc chestnut
%$tove. a Is. Soft GOAL with Wholesale dealers is
fiuctnating from So % to So 40. Coal with retail
1salera who are selling low as VI the majority
charge 81, and from that to $11.
The striking longshoremen on the Brooklyn water
front were quiet yesterday, but work was done ~
any of the piers save by few green hands vessels
which have been a week loading are still waiting
further cargoes and the daily loss to the owners anu
TO the men out of work will approxinat, $oO,OUo.
The longshoremen at work on tho wharf OF Haver-
meyer Elder the sugar firm were locked out yeser
day The weighsrs at nas pom. set at
work weighing sugar. This they refused to do; as
they would be taking the place of the strikers and 90
IN their places The Havermeyer Sugar kenh hinSS
Company's sugar house in Commercia-s', wnoa
was closed a week ago for want of coal, throwing
sovsral hundred men out of work. opened again
Yesterday the full force being taken on. Enough
coal torHn the works foriseveral weeks was oo''in-
gu THE s,rike at Devoes Oil Works docks. Hunters
pnt continues Yesterday four large vessels one OF
which sail Saturday were moorea there aw aad
them Last night about seventy more men ana bows
employed tho oil yard and box factory were iah on
on accouu OF too much stock ahead If the lonssnore
men do not return 20 work to-day the 500 employees
will pro hably all be laid off to night. -.
Al the Netherlands American wharf in Jersey City
the steamship w. A. Scholten, from Rotterdam nn-'
ished dischargng cargo yesterday and Is loading for
the hOmeward voyage. The crew have been renewed
from duty as freight handlers and the German ana
italian contingent are dong satisfactory WORK. me
Scholten has all her coal on board and Will prohaoiy
sail on Thursday. At the Inman wharf the City OF
Chester has sixty men at work taking ont cargo ana
putting in coal On the Red Star pier the Nederland
was locked about 10 a. N. and at p m seventy men
were discharping freight. All of the weigh masters
assistants had resumed work because they understood
that the Surveyor the Port had list OF 500 compe
tent men ready to take their places
At HobOken the Hamburg and Bremen wharves
were busy all day, every empOye being Don-nn,on
man under salary OF $15 week. with extra pay Tor
night hours At the Delaware Lackawanna and west
handled promptly In the afternoon the 200 Italians
mt work became pano-sricken by report that boat
load OF dynamite under the wharf. The police and
PinkertOn's men treasured them.
The steamer Caroline Miller arrived at Stapleton
Yesterday from Baltimore with 900 tons Of bituinnous
coal for McCulden Brothers, of this city. The vessel
was locked at Beehtels basin, where dischar2ng the
coal into lighters begun aiterward che Will DC
the firm.
The print mills of the Yonkers Carpet Works, be-
Ion gng alexander Smiths Sons, stopped work yes
terday. throwing 800 hands out OF employment The
mill is out of coal and can get no more There Is little
coal in any OF the Yonkers factories.
An sesn Of Of the a AK snv ahe the SerS
take gang of sailors to the Erin and help 10 unload
on board the Eria that he did not ship
IN the Ern and could not be expected TO work on her
The mate want to work o1 Se Erin
The captain OF the eivea said last night the man was
to state that the boafswsn would not DO punished
when the vessel arrived In England. Whether sullivan
Is in irons not is uncertain but 1t was stated By Que OF
the officers that he Was the only man on the boat not
WORKING"